Top 50 iPhone Apps for Kids
About a week after I began using my iPhone, I was in love. I had a calendar with me at all times, and I was able to stay on top of my family's schedule - even though there are six of us! I had email access while I was out, so I wasn't constantly playing catch up with PTO business in the evening. Then I discovered apps! There are many apps to help busy moms manage their lives, but there are also just as many exclusively for kids. My children can watch videos, interact with their favorite characters, and practice letter-writing and math. No matter where my family goes, they can be entertained and I can have peace of mind knowing they're learning even while they're having fun.
In January 2009 I began a website, The iPhone Mom, dedicated to helping moms find apps that could do the same for them and their children. Since beginning the site, I've seen both the quantity and quality of useful apps for kids grow.
Babble.com asked me to put together a list of my Top 50 iPhone Apps for Kids. Here, in descending order, are my favorites and the ones I think you'll find most useful.
--Heather Leister
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Ever want to be a Superhero? A Robot? A Monkey? How about a Superhero Robot Monkey?! Mixamajig gives you the power! This imaginative app lets you create millions of different combinations of goofy “Kooks!” You can even add your own photos & sounds! Share your creations on Facebook & Twitter or mail out custom greeting cards! Get it for the kids – but you may find yourself playing with it too!
Going beyond math equations and flash cards, iLiveMath will test students with illustrative questions. Students will be challenged with their applied math skills. iLiveMath series leverages photos, videos, wikis, and sound to stimulate learning.
If your kids love firefighters, this app is a must have. Your kids will love going through the life of a fire fighter from the time of an emergency call to rescuing a cat and putting out the fire. Slide up, slide down, move, touch and poke various objects with real sound effects and colorful scenes. It is fun and interactive with exciting background music its sure to delight your kids.
Stack the Countries makes learning about the world fun! Watch the countries actually come to life in this colorful and dynamic game! As you learn country capitals, landmarks, geographic locations and more, you can actually touch, move and drop the animated countries anywhere on the screen.
With Drum Circle Kids, your tot can create unique jam sessions by tapping to turn five animated drummers on and off with dozens of possible combinations. In the learn section, kids can swipe from one drum to the next and play each drum while learning fun drum facts. Includes: the American Trap Set, Caribbean Steel Pan, Chinese Drum, Cuban Conga and the West African Djembe!
This is an amazing apps for kids my niece & nephew love it. It is amazing!!!
Tash
A must-have iPhone app, Audiobooks For Your Kids lets you effortlessly listen to classic childrens books. Simply download the stories and you are ready to go.
Rediscover classics like Little Women, Jungle Book and Andersens Fairy Tales. We picked thirty of the best-narrated titles from Librivox.org.
Kinder Hangman is definitely one of favorite iPhone apps for my kids. It an interesting, entertaining and educational iPhone game the main objective of which is to improve vocabulary of children. It is intended for kids 5-10 years. Kinder Hangman provides kids with interesting game that has a positive impact on development of kids. Playing this puzzle game kids can learn new words easily.
A fun and interactive children’s book made especially for children who have asthma or who know someone who has asthma.
In this amusing story, Fluffer the cat loses his puffer. But with the help from a friend he learns that having asthma doesn’t limit you from being able to accomplish anything you set your mind to.
Great app. I would nominate this for the “Most Useful App” category if it exists.
Monkey Drum is an amazing musical kid’s app. For starters, there’s an adorable monkey, and when you play the drum he repeats everything you do – including bopping him on the head! Keep playing for rewards like banans.
As if that weren’t enough – it also has a sequencer where you can create entire songs by drawing on a grid, using a variety of instruments. It’s deep, but a 5-year old can do it!
A wonderful little app! My child is delighted by all the interaction that it has. It is notable that the counting of items can be pressed out of order which many apps do not do. It features 3 songs and a great number of mini games in 5 scenes packed with educational content and animations. It is definitely one of favorite iPhone apps for my little one.
Teaches kids to count